The festive season brings with it the wonderful opportunity to put on a simple nativity play with 3-7s, either in church or in your church hall or classroom. Following the success of Vicki Howie's ever-popular Easy Ways to Christmas Plays, this second book contains three brand new plays, each with a storyline that is woven around the Christmas story.
A five-week countdown begins with the play written as a delightful story for you to read to the children, continues with simple drama games that take the place of long rehearsals, and ends with an easy-to-do performance of the play. The emphasis is on having fun while learning about many aspects of Christmas - an enjoyable nativity play being a welcome byproduct!
The plays are all easy to prepare, involving lots of mime and action and only minimal speaking parts, and the book comes with photocopy permission on all scripts and activity sheets.
Choose from three exciting themes:
The Advent calendar puzzle
An easy play that can be produced with a very small number of children if necessary. Prompted by the pictures behind the 24 doors, the children will discover which things are truly part of the Christmas story.
What can I give him?
Based on the tradition of Posada, this simple play will help children to understand that the best Christmas present we can give Jesus is to be kind to others.
Silent Night
A delightful play about the origins of the famous carol and why it was first performed with a guitar accompaniment. Do look out for the delightful gift book of the story of 'Silent Night' also by Vicki Howie - a perfect accompaniment to the play.
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